Aygül Berivan Aslan
Aygül Berivan Aslan, born on October 16th, 1981 in Kulu, Turkey, is an Austrian politician, political scientist, lawyer and Member of Parliament for the Greens (Die Grünen) in the Austrian National Council. She is considered an expert on human and women's rights, and immigration issues.
Political Career[edit]
Aslan has her first political experiences during her high school years as a class and student representative. During the last parliamentary elections in Austria, Aygül Berivan Aslan achieved second place in the national list of the Tyrolean Greens and was elected as MP in the National Council in 2013. She is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Green Bildungswerkstatt Tirol.
Education[edit]
Aygül Bêrîvan Aslan attended elementary and secondary school in Telfs. She went on to study Economics at the Realgymnasium of Innsbruck. From 2005 to 2008, she studied Political Science at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, where she then became a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. Aslan’s particular focus was on EU migration policy, gender studies and migration studies. In her thesis she dealt with human rights in Turkey. In 2009 she enrolled in Business Law and began a Doctorate of Laws at the University of Innsbruck. She is currently a legal assistant in the Independent Administrative Senate in Tirol and is writing her dissertation.
Notable Work[edit]
As the daughter of a human rights activist, Aslan’s social involvement and commitment towards human rights and women's rights started very early. During her studies, she worked in various cultural and social integration projects with the main focus on girls and women. She is currently a consultant at the Center for Migrants in Tyrol (ZeMiT). She also serves on the board of the non-profit association network Gender Studies, which is part of the inter-faculty research platform Gender Research at the University of Innsbruck and is the Vice-President of the Austrian Society for promotion of Kurdish Studies / European Centre for Kurdish studies.
